My Mom wants to go Back Home

My Mom Wants to Go Back Home is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands. 

The book starts with an after image of the last building Hanna sees in Ukraine, followed by a sequence of a train journey of Hanna and her mother. The idea for the book was to make a personal diary that can be read as a text layer with fragments of memories of the past and thoughts about the future. This textual layer is alternated with the cinematic documentary layer of photographs that show the rhythm of the journey to Amsterdam. The images become more hopeful and lighter as time passes.


Year 2024
Client Hanna Hrabarska
Location Amsterdam
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Printer NPN

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